Re: Finder plugins.
Re: Finder plugins.
- Subject: Re: Finder plugins.
- From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:32:18 -0700
On 23 Apr 07, at 18:08, Sandro Noel wrote:
On 23-Apr-07, at 9:02 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 23 Apr 07, at 17:51, Sandro Noel wrote:
I'm looking for information on designing a plugin for the finder.
I would like for the finder to display a scaled image instead of
the "folder" icon
when a file inside the folder is named the same as the folder or
like in windows "folder.jpg"
There's no supported way to do that - the Finder doesn't have a
plugin architecture, and the existing thumbnails appear to be
generated internally. There are, however, ways to set folder icons
without modifying the Finder.
Ya i tried that but it's to much work, i'd like to just throw in an
image, and get the thumbnails without having to start up a
3rd party software and build an icon for the folder, or to get info
on both and copy paste...
an having to redo everything if i decide to change the images on a
folder or many at a time...
I guess i'm a little lazy ... :)
but, if you have an automated way of doing this that does not
include folder actions or automator, i'm all ears ! :)
Trust me on this one: Writing a haxie to add this functionality to
the Finder would be much more work than even doing it manually for
every modified folder.
Even so, there's a number of reasonable solutions. Writing a program
to "rebuild" custom icons on a folder tree wouldn't be very hard.
Writing a program to monitor a directory hierarchy (using kqueue) and
update icons on the fly would only be slightly harder.
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